We Share a Poem
“So, I heard you write poetry?”
he said
“Yeah, I do”
He smiles and responds
“Wow, that’s amazing, I do too”
“Oh my God, really you do?”
I think I am falling in love with falling in love with
you
But I am a slave to Father Time that reminds me
constantly;
It’s only been a week or two since I first laid my
eyes on you
When the harshness of reality moistens my cheeks
with the rough texture of lives
Injustices, you took my face into your soft hands
and caressed it,
You blew my tears of weariness away with the
power of your words
You wrote me a poem
“Latisha, no matter what happens, what you do,
where you go, what you try
I want you to remember I’ll always be by your side”
I know this might sound like another cliché love
scene in an old romance novel hidden in a school girl’s crush
But it soothes me; it soothes me that in the deepest
core of my heart, I knew it wasn’t a lie
I froze my tears, cease to cry
I smiled and thought about when you hold me
You hold me so tight as if you could insert your
heart into mine
And create one heart beat
You would
Not only that but more as if you could get deep
inside my soul
Where no man has ever dared journey, you would
pack up
Your gear, kiss your friends and family Good-bye
and come into me
You locked your fingers between mine so tightly I
couldn’t escape your grasp, not that I really wanted
to anyway
Then you’d say to me,
“We were meant to be, look how they fit perfectly”
He said,
I wanna know you; I wanna make you happy, I
wanna fall in love with you”
I know cliché, right?
“Sometimes I feel so invisible” I would confess to
him
“You’re not invisible; sometimes you are all I see”
Cliché, Cliché, Cliché
Do I make you happy? He asked me
I smiled and replied, “Yes, yes, yes you do”
“You’re a princess, you know that?”
I said,” I think you’re amazing”
The next day I gazed into his warm eyes and
whispered into his ears,
Are you ready to write that poem?”
Author Latisha J Greaves-Barker
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